Why instagram link onebox like this?

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why does this instagram link onebox like this?

it also links to nowhere if I don’t use hyperlinked text (you can click on the one-boxed link above)!

the link:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3jG277hve9/

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My guess is it is a private account?

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Nope, that’s not a private account. Here’s another example from a fully public post:

Wow, I posted https://www.instagram.com/p/B6gUJwDl-lQ/ but the onebox redirects to this topic itself…

(edit my post to repro this in the composer)

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What’s different about this photo versus others?

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It seems that some Instagram pages have a canonical link with a different url that requires login. The code in the onebox library prefers the canonical url.
https://github.com/discourse/onebox/blob/master/lib/onebox/helpers.rb#L25-L40

For example, these are the canonical urls of the instagrams in this topic:

https://www.instagram.com/shaparakgroup.ir/p/B3jG277hve9/caption/backhand_index_pointing_right-chp-shprkh-ok_hand-black_small_square-khrt-wyzyt-hy-brsh-khs

https://www.instagram.com/dogsofinstagram/p/B6gUJwDl-lQ/caption/happy-holidays-writes-konaandcamper-misslolathegoldendoodle-camera_with_flash-by-sh

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I’m getting this issue as well. Upgrading my installation now to see if it fixes.

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@techAPJ can you fix this please? Basically we have to ignore canonical metadata for Instagram now…

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Done via:

Example link:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Cz042qSxv/

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Looks like we’ve regressed here, or Instagram changed something again. We’re back to just showing “Login • Instagram”. cc @techAPJ

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Weird, that image on Instagram doesn’t have any og: meta tags anymore. :grimacing: Couldn’t find any other that would have them missing…

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The weird thing is Instagram onebox is working okay for me locally (on latest Discourse version). And I do see OpenGraph (og) tags in incognito mode.

Reproducing this issue locally will be tricky… investigating more.

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Is it specific to that one image? :thinking:

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No, I tried multiple images from multiple accounts and all were oneboxing fine locally.

Here’s an image from an hour ago on NatGeo oneboxing fine locally.

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Might be geographical issue?

FWIW, Instagram oneboxing is failing on discourse.codinghorror.com as well, so this issue is not specific to meta.

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Maybe the user agent changes the response?

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this is broken on our forum as well

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I don’t think so. We use same user agent for all the requests made from Discourse codebase as per:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/edbc3565933819a9ebe4e80d567c35f5dca061a2/lib/final_destination.rb#L70

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Same issue on ours now here in the UK too.

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I am updating Instagram onebox to use official oEmbed endpoints. I have this change working locally and expect to push a fix later today. Hopefully the Instagram oEmbed endpoints will not have geographical restrictions.

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